# Night Reader

> Reading comfortably with inverted brightness but preserved hue

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/nightreader](https://chrome-stats.com/d/nightreader)

## Overview

- **ID:** `nightreader`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Peter Nerlich
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 47
- **Rating:** 4.11 / 5 (28 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.7.42resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-08-29
- **Size:** 107 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nightreader/)
- **Website:** [http://peter.nerlich4u.de/nightreader](http://peter.nerlich4u.de/nightreader)

## Description

Night Reader is a Firefox add-on that eases your eyes by inverting the brightness of webpages. It applies the CSS filter invert to the document root, providing a general solution. Images are displayed normally, and hue rotation is applied to preserve visual appearance. Additional features include a domain-based blacklist, customizable CSS rules, and keyboard shortcuts.

## Rankings

- #16,506 — Overall
- #83 — reader
- #91 — comfort
- #95 — night mode
- #163 — header
- #233 — component

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`
- `ftp://*/*`
- `file://*/*`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension website URL may be invalid

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/nightreader)